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Learn more about the strategic aims of DEAL and its negotiation objectives and how the Publish and Read agreements are driving the open access transformation.

Thanks to the transformative nationwide DEAL agreements, authors affiliated with more than 1000 DEAL institutions across Germany can publish their articles openly in thousands of high quality, peer-reviewed journals across all disciplines.

https://deal-konsortium.de/en/

Bei der Open-Access-Veröffentlichung Ihrer Forschungsergebnisse ist die Wahl der richtigen Creative-Commons-Lizenz (CC) entscheidend. Unter den verschiedenen Optionen empfiehlt das DEAL-Konsortium die CC BY (Attribution) Lizenz, da sie die beste Wahl ist, um die Sichtbarkeit und Reichweite Ihrer Arbeit zu maximieren.

Erfahren Sie, warum Sie als Wissenschaftsautor*in der reinen CC BY-Lizenz, wenn sie zur Auswahl steht, immer den Vorzug vor anderen Lizenztypen geben sollten, insbesondere solchen mit Einschränkungen hinsichtlich der kommerziellen Nutzung (Zusatz „-NC“/”non-commercial”).

https://deal-konsortium.de/warum-ccby

Open access agreement for Germany
Publish with Elsevier

Please note: Check the list of journals that are included in the agreement.
Download: Journal List.xlsx

Pricing Model

• Paper Charge Model: Participating institutions will pay a Publish and Read Fee (PAR Fee) or an Article Processing Charge (APC), as specified in the contract, for each publication in Elsevier’s Core Hybrid and Fully Gold journals by submitting corresponding authors assigned to their institution. All fees incurred will be invoiced to the participating institutions by MPDL Services gGmbH.
• The PAR Fee for publications in Core Hybrid journals is €2,550 net. In the case of a high participation rate (more than 90% of the German publication volume in Elsevier journals in 2022 is covered by the participating institutions), the PAR fee will be reduced by 2% to €2,500 net. In both cases, the PAR fee is subject to an annual increase of 3% from 2025.
• For publications in Cell Press and The Lancet hybrid journals, the APC is €6,450 net. It is subject to an annual increase of 4% from 2025.
• For publications in Elsevier’s Fully Gold Open Access journals, the APCs are calculated according to the list prices charged to participating institutions minus the agreed discounts.

Article Publishing Charge (APC) price list

Open access agreement for Germany
Information for authors
Author tutorials (Writing a journal manuscript)

Please note: Check the list of journals that are included in the agreement.
Here you find the link to the current Springer Journal List
Download: Journal List.xlsx

• The cost of Open Access publishing and reading access for subscription journals will be covered by the reallocation of former subscription fees as part of the DEAL transitional cost model “Publish and Read”. A Publish and Read (PAR) Fee of EUR 2,600 per publication in (hybrid) subscription journals has been agreed for the duration of the contract.

https://deal-konsortium.de/en/agreements/springer-nature

Open access agreement for authors at eligible German institutions
Wiley Author Services

Please note: You must publish open access in one of Wiley’s and Hindawi’s fully open access journals or a subscription journal that offers open access (hybrid journal).
Download the full list of journals here

Pricing Model

• The costs for Open Access publishing and access to subscription journal content are covered through the reallocation of former subscription fees under the DEAL transitional cost model “Publish And Read,” via a unified Publish-and-Read Fee (PAR Fee). For the new Wiley contract starting in 2024, journals are categorized into three different tiers, each with different PAR Fees:
  • Tier I: Journals in Tier I, for example, have a full-time, permanent editorial office or are led by full-time Editors-in-Chief employed by Wiley or a professional society. They have Hybrid APC list prices outside of DEAL exceeding 3,500 EUR – the APC price alone is not decisive.
  • Tier II & III: Journals in Tier II & III differ based on their ownership status (Tier II – journals from professional societies or Wiley-owned).

https://deal-konsortium.de/en/agreements/wiley

Benefits for institutional partners

• Discounts are applied to your APCs, depending on the agreement (DRFZ: 10%).
• You’ll have access to a tailored dashboard where you can approve funding, monitor engagement and download reports.
• You’ll be given full control with every APC verified by a central contact point.
• You’ll have personalized, dedicated account management support to ensure a seamless partnership.

The DRFZ will participate in a Gold OA publication agreement from 2025.

Option 3 – Author pays (non-centralized billing):
The publisher bills the authors directly. The author receives a 15% discount on the APC for accepted manuscripts.

Instructions for Authors

Article Processing Charges (APC) Information

The DRFZ concludes the Nature Publish & Read Agreement
With this agreement, DRFZ-authors will have the opportunity to publish their articles open access in Nature and 34 original Nature Research journals within the Nature Research portfolio.

Permanent access to all 58 Nature and Nature Branded Journals.
OA publishing: in every Nature Research Journal.
Nature Review Journals and Nature Protocols = read only.

Please note the Nature journals title list.

https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/institutional-agreements/ta-nature-de

The US publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) publishes pure Open Access journals in the natural and life sciences and related disciplines.

The DRFZ is part of a consortium agreement with Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) that allows member institutions to participate in PLOS’ three innovative publishing models.

This two-year agreement (2023 – 2024) provides researchers affiliated with consortium members with unlimited publishing privileges in PLOS journals without them having to cover fees themselves (PLOS Biology, PLOS Climate, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, PLOS Water).

To publish in PLOS as a corresponding author:

• Please follow the Submission Guidelines (Editorial Manager).
• While submitting your manuscript, please indicate German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ) as your institution/affiliation (see further information here).

PLOS submission instructions for authors

PLOS Einreichungsanleitung fuer AutorInnen

Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has joined an unlimited Read-and-Publish agreement with participating members of the ZB MED consortium. The agreement covers RUP’s three hybrid journals: Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP).

How researchers immediately benefit from this agreement:

• Read: Unlimited access to all content published in JCB, JEM, and JGP immediately after publication.
• Publish: 100% coverage of the Immediate Open Access fees on any accepted manuscript when the primary corresponding author is based at a participating institution. There is no limit to the number of articles that may be published as a part of the deal.

Open Access research articles are published under a CC-BY license, directly deposited to PubMed Central (PMC) and subsequently to Europe PMC, and archived in LOCKSS/CLOCKSS.

https://rupress.org/journals/pages/read-and-publish-agreement-zb-med

Read-and-Publish Agreement Author Experience

If your institution has a Read-and-Publish agreement with Rockefeller University Press and you are the primary corresponding author publishing in Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, or Journal of General Physiology, you are entitled to Gold Open Access publication with all fees covered by the deal. Please follow the steps in this document to ensure that your manuscript is recognized as part of the deal.

https://rupress.org/journals/pages/rup-read-and-publish-guide

DRFZ/MPI Local Catalogue
Please send book requests by mail to library@drfz.de
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue KVK
Directory of Open Access Books DOAB
NCBI Bookshelf
Google Books

Databases

PubMed

Alternative Access Strategies

Google scholar

Most entries in a GS search come with several different access options, with a link to direct access when available

BASE – Bielefelder Academic Search Engine

One of the world’s most voluminous search engines for academic web resources, provides more than 120 million documents of which about 60% are open access

Open Access Button

Free, legal research papers, covers also preprint archives, institutional and subject repositories and researchGate. Additionally it allows you to send a request for any article that isn’t already covered and the OAButton team will try to make it available

bioRxiv

Preprint server

ResearchGate

Tool for academic networking: register for free, create your own profile, share research, ask authors for publications

The uploading of articles which are not published open access may violate the copyright.

Unpaywall

Unpaywall is an open database that provides links to more than 23 million open-access resources. It harvests content directly from over 50,000 journals’ open-access repositories and open data from PubMed Central, the DOAJ, Crossref (particulary their license info), and DataCite.

library@drfz.de

If all else fails please order the article from your library.

Beolingus Online Dictionary
Collins Online Dictionaries
Dict.cc
Leo
Linguee
DeepL Translator
Pons Online Dictionary
Lexikon Medizin
Wikipedia

DRFZ Electronic Journals Library EZB
Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ
German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB)

Open Access Monitor
Monitor zur Erfassung des Publikationsaufkommens deutscher akademischer Einrichtungen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften.
Analysen der Subskriptions- und Publikationsausgaben unterstützen die Transformation in den Open Access.

Open Access to Scientific Information Open Access Net
Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Books DOAB
SHERPA/RoMEO (Publisher copyright polocies and self-archiving)
Open Access at the Leibniz Association
Leibniz Open (Leibniz Association Repository)

Publications 2000 – 2024

The link leads to the DRFZ – intranet site.
Access from DRFZ-net only!